By Ayn Rand
It is a rule of life that we eventually become victims of the evil we do to others.
Don’t play the victim to circumstances you created.
Of all kinds of karma, using occult forces for one’s own benefit or to the harm of others has the worst consequences for oneself.
Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
Rights are not a matter of numbers – and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Just as man can’t exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one’s rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
Government ‘help’ to business is just as disastrous as government persecution… the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands-off.
Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
Do not ever say that the desire to ‘do good’ by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
India has a legitimate right to becoming a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council.
People want government to deliver – here and now.
The regional parties have emerged as a strong force, and they, too, deserve a place in national politics.
My government is committed to carrying out electoral reforms. It is our firm resolve to keep criminal elements away from power.
No guns but only brotherhood can resolve the problems.
Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
